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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] About forcing rebuilds of other packages issue
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2012 21:46:58
Message-Id: 4FCFCF93.1090502@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] About forcing rebuilds of other packages issue by Ciaran McCreesh
1 On 06/06/2012 10:19 AM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2 > On Wed, 06 Jun 2012 10:32:08 +0200
3 > Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o> wrote:
4 >>> We do? Please tell us. I was under the impression that we still
5 >>> didn't fully know what the problem was.
6 >>
7 >> Well, could you please let me know how to handle some issues already
8 >> mentioned? For example:
9 >> - Rebuild dbus-glib and gobject-introspection after major glib update.
10 >> - Rebuild x11 drivers after xorg-update
11 >
12 > Those are the ones we probably do understand. You just up the SLOT (and
13 > if you really need to, use blockers between slots, although this is
14 > discouraged in favour of writing better ebuilds), and everything that
15 > build+run-deps upon these things uses := dependencies.
16
17 Can you explain how Exherbo is handling dbus-glib rebuilds after glib:2
18 updates? It seems that dbus-glib is not using a SLOT operator for its
19 glib:2 dependency:
20
21 http://git.exherbo.org/summer/packages/dev-libs/dbus-glib/index.html
22 --
23 Thanks,
24 Zac

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Re: [gentoo-dev] About forcing rebuilds of other packages issue Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>